Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-09
OGDEN CITY.
General Notes,


just undressed himself to go to bed in an
adjoining room, when the limbs of the
law pounced in on the undressed pair
and put them in separate rooms in the
cooler. Peanuts" is the notorious
Thorn" who had a sweet-scented Rose
in Salt Lake City. Alderman Dee will
attend to the case.
A garter snake crawled out of mans
boots on Main street on Saturday, and
lay dead in the gutter.
King Nelson Cole has returned from
California. lie could not endure the
abuse of the Mormons by the Califor-
mans. Cute old Cole!
Your Ogden scribe took a pleasant
and interesting trip to the salt works be-
tween Hooper and Kaysville on Sunday,
more of which will appear hereafter.
Registration week is over, but more
entries at the various officers places will
vet be made. There has rot been any,
thing like the falling-off in registration as
had been expected. All the better it is
for the cause of loyalty in this Territory,
especially in Weber county, next to
Summit the most liberal one. After
while Weber county will be wrenched
from the Richards ring and the Church
clutches. The day is not so "Farr'' off
as some may think. Business is BUSH
ness, and Ogden is essentially business.
Joseph Fuchs, a native of Switzerland.
and a pleasant young gentleman, has
entered service at the Chamberlain
House, Geo. w. Lashus, proprietor.
The debate on Mormonism, to be held
",
evenings last week, was cut short after
the second night, as Elder Wiles, of the
Brighamite branch would not pursue the
theologio-historical fight he had been
carrying on against Rev. Clapp, OF the
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Several leading Nor
mon elders from Ogden ATTENDED the first
two performances. On the whole, it is
believed that Mr.. Clapp did away the
Utah Wiles.
Floyd Halverson was fined $40 in the
Police Court, on Saturday, for disturbing
the peace.
The festive youngsters are out catching
grasshoppers while the deputy marshals
are after the cohabs. 1t is tight run
between the grasshoppers and the CO.
habs.
Literary compliments from A. c.
Emerson are gratefully acknowledged.
Alma H. VIM was in Ogden on Sat-
urday, being called as witness in a the
District Court in a certain civil suit.
Ilearn that Judge Powers, who filed
the First District bench after Hon. P. II.
Emerson, and up to the tine of Hon. H
?. Henderson's accession (all three from
Michigan) intends coming back to Utah,
some of the peculiar institutions OF which
he has been deservingly active in mailing
on the cross of public execration.
Large raisers of vegetables are some
what dissatisfied with the present
condition of the weather, as the
atmospheric fuctuation from dry heat to
cold wet seriously intereferes with the
growth.
Leslie Boyden, VIM. Driver & Sons
bookkeeper, went to his paternal manse
at Coalville to spend Sunday. He did
not inform me of the chapter and verse
for his text to Sunday school sermon. |
liberal friends from the settlements
tell me that the brethren took the oath |
as fish takes water. When will they |
for the United States Government in its |
legislative bench, better known as Con-
gress.
Mr.. Gus Lundbery, one of the leading
lumber manufacturers of Cache Valley, |
has been in Ogden for several days. His |
business has been a mixture of lumber |
and law.
Some OF the travelling shows, such as
McFadden's "Uncle Toms Cabin" out
fit, would show more responsibility by |
returning journalistic courtesies in a more |
open-handed manner.
Our farming friends from all over
Weber county are loud in their praises |
OF Jupiter Pluvius. The old heather |
rain god may yet beinserted in the divine |
picture gallery of the multifarious Nor
mon mythology.
Colds are very numerous and con-
tagious, just now.
Last Saturday was distinguished by an
unusually large concourse of country peo- |
pie in town, who were crowding the
stores and making the merchants happy. |
The Ogden Chamber of Commerce has
received diligent and due credit in the |
New York Stats Zeitung, the leading !
German-American newspaper on this |
continent.
Henry Tribe returned to Ogden on Sat
urday morning.
P. H. Lannan looked as we'll as usual
when he came in from California on the
c. P. train last Saturday.
Residence property continues to COM
mand high price in the market, even
inordinately so.
The comparative insecurity of our
streets late at night was exemplifed on
Saturday night between the hours of II !
and /, when the premises of H. w.
Shurtliff were prowled upon by a brace |
of rough strangers who badly scared the |
lady inmates OF the family residence by .
rapping at the windows, throwing rocks |
at the walls and other manifestations of |
turbulent natures. MIR. Shurtliff got
home Just Jew minutes after the dis
turbance. Had he got there that much |
earlier, the two intruders would have |
found their reception warmer than the |
cool night air made it for them.
On Saturday evening there was an
other fire alarm all over town. The |
blaze was ABOUT MI. Illus. NduOOH |
plantation in the eastern part of the |
township, near the foot of the mountains. |
The fire boys (the hose company being at
the time on a drill) turned out at once
and saved the residence of Mr.. Stephens. |
Fortunately only lot Of sagebrush was
DESTROYED, with possibly dozen or two
OF lack rabbits. The fire had been set |
by careless and punishable disregard OF
the city ordinances.
E.S.N. Morgan, ex-Territoriai Secre-
tary of Wyoming, has been in town look
ing up the Ogden boom.
learn from best authority that Judge
Gibbons has taken charge of the Broom
Hotel.
The City Hall, in its upstairs depart
ment, is we'll stocked with women and |